Black Francis, a.k.a. Frank Black, has gotten all retro and created a film score to the 1920's film The Golem. It's being packaged as a Black Francis release, and will be released on November 16 under the title The Golem Rock Album.

The Golem: How He Came Into The World tells the story of the persecution of the Jews of Prague. Safe to say it's probably a dark film (two words: German Expressionism). The whole scoring thing came about when the San Francisco International Film Festival asked Black Francis score the film as well as do a live performance at theur annual film festival back in 2008. Not wanting to let a good thing go, he decided to later commit the whole thing to a recording.

Black went to Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco and worked with producer Eric Drew Feldman as well as Duane Jarvis on lead guitar, EDF on keys, Joseph Pope on bass, Jason Carter on drums and Ralph Carney on horns.